Broom or brush.



N. s. AIRHART & E. H. GOLD.

BROOM 0R BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED FEBJS, 1914.

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Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

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NOAH S. AIRHART, OF DENISON, TEXAS, AND EGBERT H. GGLD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

BROOM 0B, BRUSH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 16, 1915.

Application filed February 19, 1914. Serial No. 819,808.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, NOAH S. Anti-min and Eonnnr H. GOLD, citizens of the United States, residing at Denison, in the county of Grayson and State of Texas, and Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brooms or Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to brooms or brushes, and has for its object to provide a broom or brush made entirely of metal which will be strong and durable, relatively light in weight, and can be inexpensively manufactured. The broom or brush is intended particularly for heavy work, such as sweeping snow, mud, slush, and the like. lhe same constructions, however, might be employed for making smaller, lighter articles intended for other kinds of service.

The invention consists in the novel devices and combinations of devices in metal brooms or brushes to be hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is illustrated, in a preferred embodiment, in the accompanying drawing wherein Figure 1 is a side view of the broom with certain parts broken away to show the interior arrangements; Fig. 2, a sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a view, in perspective, of the lower end of the handle and cap to which the brush element is secured; Fig. t, a similar view or asection 01" pipe shown as split in readiness to be bent into the form shown in Fig. 8; Fig. 5, a similar view of a reinforcing collar which surrounds the handle and embraces the upper portion of the brush element, and Fig. 6, a View of one of the plates by which the brush element is attached to the cap on the handle.

Like characters of reference designate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

The handle consists wholly or in part of a metal pipe 10, one end i which is split as indicated at a, Fig. 4:, and bent so as to form a channel-shaped cap 11 having preferably angular-1y disposed extensions 12 to embrace opposite edges of the brush element. The latter consists of a plurality of wires 13 bent at the middle around a stirrup rod 14:. lhe

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents folded edge of the body of wires is fitted snugly into the channel-shaped cap 11 and secured thereto by plates 15 and by rivets 16 or other suitable attaching devices, the plates 15 being preferably formed with curved margins 17 so as to fit the rounded surface of the cap member. Preferably the construction is strengthened and made rigid and the attachment of the brush element to the handle made more secure by a collar 18 which is slipped over the end of handle 10 and is formed with spaced flanges 19 fitted over the plates 15 and secured thereto and to the wires by the center pair of rivets 16.

:Vhile we have described our invention in a certain preferred embodiment, it is realized that minor changes in the form, construction and arrangement of the parts might be made without departure from the invention.

The word brush used in the claims is intended to have a broad signification so as to include, for example, articles commonly called brooms.

l Ve claim:

1. In a brush, the combination with a handle comprising a metal pipe split at one end and bent to form a channelshaped cap, of a brush element, and m ans for securing the same in said cap.

2. In a brush, the combination with a handle comprising a metal pipe split at one end and bent so as to form a channel-shaped cap having angular-1y disposed extensions at opposite ends, of a brush element, and means for securing the same in said cap.

3. In a brush, the combination with a V handle comprising a metal pipe split at one Washington, I). G. 

